Healthcare remains the highest paid specialization among jobs for overseas Filipino workers, according to an annual overseas report by WorkAbroad.ph.
The report disclosed that OFWs in the healthcare field, particularly doctors, received an average monthly income of P111,620.
Other top paid specializations were process design and control, public relations or communications, aviation or aircraft maintenance, legal services, education, quality control, IT-related, engineering-related and architecture or interior design.
Each specialization’s monthly income ranged from about P55,000 to P90,000.
WorkAbroad.ph business unit manager Rhea Suiza said the site used data from January to September 2016 from 117,000 jobs as base to come up with 2016 overseas salary report.
“Being the leading overseas jobs board [in the country], we believe that Filipinos are globally competitive so we make sure that we look out for them as well,” she said.
Although jobs in the field of healthcare topped the list of highest paid OFW specializations, engineering-related specializations maintained their place as the most in-demand with 30,972 posted jobs in WorkAbroad.ph, creating the most overseas job opportunities.
Among other high in-demand specializations were general work, hospitality-related, healthcare, manufacturing/production operations, maintenance/repair, personal care/beauty/fitness, sales-related, clerical/administrative support and arts/creative/graphics design.
The annual report showed the United Arab Emirates was the highest paying country.
A doctor in UAE may earn as high as P253,826 a month. UAE is followed by Qatar and Canada “• having aviation/aircraft maintenance and nurse/medical support & assistant as the highest paying industries, respectively.
The report also revealed that 117,696 OFW jobs were offered in the first nine months.